Letters To The Editor
BIG BOOK BARGAINS! Editor, The friends of the Willits Library present its Memorial Holiday Book Sale, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 24, 25, 26, from 10am-4pm. Sunday is $3 a bag. The big book sale...
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Editor, Public Defenders are a joke. This letter is for anyone being misrepresented by the Public Defender’s office. I say misrepresented for many reasons: They practice no law, they just cut deals...
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Mendocino County Today: May 10, 2013
DOGGED INVESTIGATIONS by Frank Hartzell of the Fort Bragg Advocate reveal that a mega-bucks Florida man named Jeff Greene has bought and will re-open the Heritage House, the once glorious inn just...
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Mendocino County Today: May 11, 2013
Miller THE MANHUNT for Shane Miller continued Friday. As of late Friday afternoon there had been no reported sightings of the Shasta County man who shot and killed his wife and two young daughters...
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Blast From the Past: A Wasteful Watershed Meeting, July, 1995
(Note: This is a typical report from a “watershed group” meeting almost 20 years ago to discuss the status of a “study” costing hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars which produced nothing but a...
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Mendocino County Today: May 13, 2013
KGO TV had a major feature story about the folly of the Willits bypass on their evening news Friday night. Bypass opponents are thrilled by the blunt tone of the high-profile report which made the...
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Mendocino County Today: May 13, 2013
OFF TRACK The Corruption Behind The Non-News At The NCRA by Mark Scaramella Even Wikipedia has an entry for the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Co. “The Northwestern Pacific Railroad is a regional...
View ArticleThe Ageability Of AV Pinot
“I wish I could be a cheerleader for this,” Jim Klein of Navarro warned me about the ageability of Anderson Valley Pinot Noir, “but things get old. Nobody wants to see 80 year olds go at it.” Although...
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Anderson Valley Community Farm
Renee & Tim Ward It has been two years since I moved to Boonville to begin a farming project on Burt Cohen’s original 50-acre Boont Berry Farm property at the edge of town. My project is now called...
View ArticleBird’s Eye View
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. Well, good readers, it’s good to be back from the “real world”! Following my mysterious disappearance (that I could not possibly...
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You Call This A Defense?
Silva, Green, Hallback. The Public Defender’s Office in this county doesn’t do much to earn their nice salaries. A recent letter in the AVA from a man at the jail complained at length about how lazy...
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Off The Tracks
Even Wikipedia has an entry for the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Co. “The Northwestern Pacific Railroad is a regional railroad that serves the North Coast of California. Its main line is 271 miles...
View ArticleValley People
THE GOOD NEWS. Years of barn sales and crab feeds have gotten the dedicated parishoners of St. Elizabeth Seton’s Catholic Church to the design stage of their new church off Anderson Valley Way. Jerry...
View ArticleOff The Record
KGO TV ran a major feature story about the folly of the Willits bypass on their evening news Friday night. Bypass opponents are thrilled by the blunt tone of the high-profile report which made the...
View ArticleIn Loving Memory Of Henry Hill
The first thing I saw when I arrived at Henry Hill’s memorial was a live pink poodle on a leash with a pink haired lady in a pink satin blouse on the other end (Jonesy). That set the tone for a day...
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Mendocino County Today: May 14/15
WILLIAM OPHULS, in his bracingly pessimistic book, “Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail,” identifies the primary reasons for collapse as: “Ecological Exhaustion, Exponential Growth, Expedited...
View ArticleRiver Views
May 15th is the day Emily Dickinson died. She hadn’t left her Amherst, Massachusetts home in 21 years. Perhaps it will be of some solace to struggling poets to know that scarcely ten of her poems were...
View ArticleRoots & Eggs
“Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet.” — Will Holt Lemon trees growing near the kitchen. What a wonderful idea. So we chose the perfect spots on the south side of the house for two...
View ArticlePinot Revel Redux
You can almost hear the squeal of them flatlander Lexus tires coming down Yorkville way, headed for Saturday’s Anderson Valley Pinot Noir Festival. If last year’s event raised the bar with a sold out...
View ArticleProhibition ’37: The Hemp Lobbyist
NARRATOR: Act two, scene two: “The Hemp Lobbyist Befuddled.” Comes now the Honorable Ralph F. Lozier, a former judge and Congressman, retired to private practice. LOZIER: For the record and for the...
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